Recommended Titles for Students Entering Second Grade:

Remember students can choose a book from the list or any other book they would like to read. Happy Reading!

TITLES:
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears by Verna Aardema
Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen
Are you my mother by P.D. Easman
Bark, George by Jules Feiffer
Bad Dog, Marley! by John Grogan
The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss
Click, Clack, Moo, Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin
The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash by Trinka Hakes Noble
The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins
The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney
All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon
Strega Nona by Tomie De Paola
Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long
Sector 7 by David Wiesner
Crickwing by Janell Cannon
Dory Story by Jerry Pallotta
Skippyjon Jones by Judith Byron Schachner

Read Aloud
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
The Tale of Despereaux
by Kate DiCamillo

SERIES:
The Magic Treehouse by Mary Pope Osborne
The Bailey School Kids by Debbie Dadey
The Black Lagoon by Mike Thaler
Cam Jansen by David Adler
Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
Babymouse by Jennifer Holm
Bone by Jeff Smith
Fancy Nancy by Jane O’Connor
Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown
Magic School Bus by Joanna Cole
Minnie and Moo by Denys Cazet
George and Martha by James Marshall
Henry and Mudge by Cynthia Rylant
Junie B. Jones by Barbara Park
Mr. Putter by Cynthia Rylant
Rotten Ralph by Jack Gantos
Frog and Toad stories by Arnold Lobel

AUTHORS:
Kevin Henkes
Tomie de Paola,
Laura Numeroff
Demi
Karma Wilson
Dr. Seuss
James Marshall
Cythina Rylant
Tedd Arnold
Joanna Cole
Eloise Greenfield
Steven Kellogg
Anita Lobel
Pat McKissack
Mark Teague
Gary Soto
Wong Herbert Yee